Victims call him the Butcher of Bosnia. Defenders say he protected the Serbs. FRONTLINE chronicles the trial of Ratko Mladić and tells an epic story of justice, accountability and a country at odds over its bloody past. (Aired 2019)
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In the aftermath of the brutal wars that decimated Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, former Bosnian Serb General Ratko Mladić was accused of genocide and other war crimes — including the massacre of more than 7,000 Muslim men and boys in the town of Srebrenica in July 1995.
In “The Trial of Ratko Mladić,” FRONTLINE producers gained exclusive access to the prosecution and defense teams during Mladić’s trial before the UN’s International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
The documentary also features interviews with Mladić’s supporters and family members in Bosnia and offers harrowing accounts from some of his victims.
“The Trial of Ratko Mladić” provides haunting insights into a convicted war criminal’s motives, and the genocide he commanded his troops to carry out — as well as an intimate look at the victims left behind, who remain haunted by what their families endured.
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The Trial of Ratko Mladic was a Sandpaper Films production for WGBH/FRONTLINE in association with BBC, WDR, and VPRO. The co-directors were Henry Singer and Rob Miller. The co-producers were Henry Singer, Rob Miller and Ida Ven Bruusgaard. The executive producer of FRONTLINE was Raney Aronson-Rath.
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FRONTLINE is produced at GBH in Boston and is broadcast nationwide on PBS. Funding for FRONTLINE is provided through the support of PBS viewers and by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Additional funding is provided by the Abrams Foundation; Park Foundation; the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; and the FRONTLINE Journalism Fund with major support from Jon and Jo Ann Hagler on behalf of the Jon L. Hagler Foundation, and additional support from Koo and Patricia Yuen. Additional funding for “The Trial of Ratko Mladic” was provided by the Sigrid Rausing Trust, the Blavatnik Family Foundation, the Doc Society – The Bertha Doc Journalism Fund, the Fritt Ord Foundation, the Norwegian Film Institute, and the Sundance Institute.
CHAPTERS:
Prologue – 00:00
01:12 – Bosnian Serb General Ratko Mladić Faces Charges of Genocide, War Crimes
03:49 – Brutal Wars Across the Former Yugoslavia in the 1990s
06:32 – The First Witness in Ratko Mladić’s Trial Recounts His Muslim Town, Attacked
14:05 – Ethnic Tensions Explode in the Former Yugoslavia
16:48 – Ratko Mladić’s Defense Team
19:09 – Victims Meet with the Mladić Prosecution Team
20:52 – Prosecuting the Srebrenica Genocide & Murder of Over 7,000 Muslim Men and Boys
31:36 – A Srebrenica Mother Testifies: ‘I Lost Two Sons, I Lost My Husband’
38:42 – Searching for the Missing – and Discovering a Mass Grave at Tomasica in Bosnia
46:03 – Examining Bosnian Serb Forces’ Command & Control Structure
54:50 – A Former Driver of Ratko Mladić Testifies
1:01:20 – Ratko Mladić’s Family in Kalinovik, Bosnia
1:05:34 – Tribunal President Pays Respects at a Mass Grave in Tomasica, Bosnia
1:09:23 – International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia Marks 20th Anniversary
1:12:43 – Ratko Mladić’s Defense Team Looks for Witnesses
1:17:59 – Serbs Faced Persecution in Nazi-Occupied Yugoslavia During World War II
1:21:11 – A New Member Joins the Mladić Prosecution Team
1:23:42 – Lingering Impact of July 1992 Massacres in Prijedor
1:27:43 – A Mass Grave in Tomasica, Bosnia: The Evidence
1:32:12– An Eyewitness for Ratko Mladić’s Defense
1:39:24 – A Ceremony for Victims Found in Mass Grave in Bosnia
1:42:39 – The Ratko Mladić Verdict at the Hague in 2017
1:51:59 – Credits